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Freddy Woo writes, "My wife thinks calling the front room a lounge is common. Worse, a friend of hers recently admonished her daughter for calling a toilet, a toilet. Lavatory darling. It's lavatory."

My own mother refused to let me use the word 'oblong' instead of 'rectangle'. Which is just odd, to be honest.

What stuff do you think is common?

(I helped save b3ta! chthonic, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:06)
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My ex housemate
used to call me common because i pronounce the word scone to rhyme with the word gone.
He said it rhymed with the word cone.

I agree that my way doesn't sound as posh, but I'm from Surrey and he's from Doncaster. I win.
(ecilA Alice...has nothing to do, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:44, 11 replies)
Either way is wrong
as they're Scottish and the Jocks pronounce it 'scoo-un'.
(Juan Quar is clinging to her front teeth on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:46, closed)

I just tried to say it like that and I sounded like the Queen mocking the Scottish
(ecilA Alice...has nothing to do, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:48, closed)
I'm fairly sure that rhyming it with gone is the correct way
and that pronounced to rhyme with cone is the commoner's way of sounding posh. so the joke was on him.
(I helped save b3ta! Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:47, closed)
You are right
Definitely like gone not cone.. like bath is pronounced with an r.. barth..not bath
(scowners shagged his mum on, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:47, closed)
I've had this arguement *so* many times
It rhymes with _gone_, otherwise the joke doesn't work.

Hehe!
(MrOli is ugly, but in the morning you will be sober, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:48, closed)
Nods
Definitely...
(I helped save b3ta! snee held his breath since, Fri 17 Oct 2008, 9:45, closed)
You win
...because you are correct.

"scoan" is a ghastly Hyacinth Bucket-style affectation, like drinking tea with one's little finger extended - trying too hard = no real breeding.

*shoots grouse*
(I helped save b3ta! Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:49, closed)
Amen.
The very worst Pooterish oiks still try and convince otherwise.

*finishes off wounded grouse*
(I helped save b3ta! cupboardy, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 15:38, closed)
Scone is...
... rhymed with "gone", unless you're talking about the place just north of Perth which rhymes with "moon".
(gordonjcp, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:49, closed)
it's "scoane'
in Ireland. Definitely not posh.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Thu 16 Oct 2008, 16:51, closed)

See this pronunciation reference
Also
Wiki

I believe that the law (not me) has spoken, let this lay to rest now. Please.
(I helped save b3ta! turb0t, Sun 19 Oct 2008, 22:08, closed)

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